Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy's time as judge showed his quick mind, populist tendencies and allowed him to raise his statewide profile as he contemplated his future in higher office.

It was high-roller Joe McCarthy’s go-for-broke toss of the dice. In the fall of 1953, he put the U.S. Army in his crosshairs. He had already gone after the State Department, the Voice of America ...

December 2 is a landmark day in Senate history, marking that chamber’s historic censure of Joseph McCarthy for his conduct during public hearings.

Joe McCarthy ambitiously drove into the national scene when he was elected a U.S. Senator in 1946. He had been a good light-heavyweight boxer in college (Marquette ’35), never walked away from a ...

An appraisal of the late Senator from Wisconsin. No admirer, Mr. Rovere does have a lively and abiding curiosity about the man. While the book adds little new information to what was generally written ...

More:Joe McCarthy book draws parallels to Trump, provides new perspective on Wisconsin senator McCarthy’s tough tactics rejuvenated Republicans in 1950 and their major gains in Congress that ...

In the long history of American demagogues, from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use “McCarthyism ...

When he ran for U.S. Senate in 1946, McCarthy’s longtime friend, Urban Van Susteren, served as his campaign manager. Van Susteren was the father of TV news anchor and commentator Greta Van Susteren.

Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) appeared on the "Longines Chronoscope" interview program. Topics included the presidential and senatorial campaigns in Wisconsin, communists in the federal ...

McCarthy’s postwar career only makes it more difficult for anyone trying to find a relatable human being underneath the myth: He became a senator from Wisconsin in 1946 and ostentatiously hunted ...

Michael Shannon will play the fiery, controversial Republican U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in a feature film about his life called “McCarthy.” The film will be presented to buyers at the ...

Chief Senate counsel representing the Army Joseph Welch (left) being questioned by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy-Army hearings in 1954. (Wikimedia Commons / US Senate ...